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Dell Wants Better ATI Linux Drivers

Phoronix: Dell Wants Better ATI Linux Drivers

Dell knows it won't happen overnight, but along side wanting to ship audio/video codecs, Intel Wireless 80.211N support for Linux, Broadcom Wireless for Linux, and being able to ship notebooks and desktops with Compiz Fusion enabled, Dell would like to see improved ATI Linux drivers. At Ubuntu Live 2007, Amit Bhutani had a session on Ubuntu Linux for Dell Consumer Systems, where he had shared a slide with Dell's "area of investigation", which Amit had said is essentially their Linux road-map.

Dell knows it won't happen overnight, but along side wanting to ship audio/video codecs, Intel Wireless 80.211N support for Linux, Broadcom Wireless for Linux, and being able to ship notebooks and desktops with Compiz Fusion enabled, Dell would like to see improved ATI Linux drivers. At Ubuntu Live 2007, Amit Bhutani had a session on Ubuntu Linux for Dell Consumer Systems, where he had shared a slide with Dell's "area of investigation", which Amit had said is essentially their Linux road-map.

Looking at this and the other pictures I noticed we were at most of the same sessions today. Too bad we didn't hook up!

I was the guy in the yellow shirt and tan cap that identified myself as being from the "user desktop community" asking Amit if they would put the screws to ATI, Nvidia and Adobe for open source and 64 bit support by suggesting that Michael Dell use a 64 bit version of Ubuntu.

I was the guy in the yellow shirt and tan cap that identified myself as being from the "user desktop community" asking Amit if they would put the screws to ATI, Nvidia and Adobe for open source and 64 bit support by suggesting that Michael Dell use a 64 bit version of Ubuntu.

Looking at this and the other pictures I noticed we were at most of the same sessions today. Too bad we didn't hook up!

I was the guy in the yellow shirt and tan cap that identified myself as being from the "user desktop community" asking Amit if they would put the screws to ATI, Nvidia and Adobe for open source and 64 bit support by suggesting that Michael Dell use a 64 bit version of Ubuntu.

Hope you had fun there! Circumstances precluded me going at all this year (And it doesn't look like I'll catch LinuxWorld or GDC next year either...sigh... Well, at least I've got QuakeCon, right? )